Christology and the New Testament: Jesus and His Earliest Followers Paperback

Christology and the New Testament offers an up-to-date, comprehensive and critical survey of the whole question of the Christology of the New Testament writers. It covers recent discoveries in the area of Judaism and critiques older approaches to the subject. It looks at not only the Christological emphases of the individual writers, but offers suggestions about Jesus' own self-understanding. It concludes with hermeneutical questions concerning the place of New Testament Christology within the contemporary theological debate.